A little freedom by a geek from belgium
In the most recent update of Windows 11, Microsoft added a new design of the windows 11 start menu that includes a the pane “Access your mobile devices here”, also called “Phone Link In Start Menu”. While this is a neat feature for users at home, it’s not something you really want in a company environment. And as usual, Microsoft hasn’t provided any policy or Continue reading "Hide the Phone Link…
UPDATE 15/09/2025: it looks like they fixed it a couple of weeks ago. Recently, several colleagues reported that they received blank emails containing only images and a text file named ATT00001.txt. The images were part of the email signature, and the actual message body appeared inside the text attachment. I soon found out that Exclaimer Continue reading "Exclaimer Breaks Email Forwarding"
I’m currently migrating from our Skype environment to Teams and one of the issues we had was that our internal user could not easily find the Auto Attendant or Call queue of our internal departments. Only when they searched on the virtual operator (Resource Account) full name, did they get the correct results. Fortunately, thanks Continue reading "Hard to find Call Queues and Auto Attendants in…
A couple of months ago I rooted my Fairphone successfully but now the OTA doesn t work. Which isn t a big surprise as the signature is modified by installing Magisk. Fortunately, there is an easy method to fix this. Unfortunately, you will root your device again, but this time I was able to do it without Continue reading "Updating a rooted Fairphone 4 (February 2022)"
Nothing feels so good as shutting down an old server running an EOS operating system. A couple of years ago I did a project where I needed to migrate a lot of old Windows servers. Every time I decommissioned an old server in that project, I always entered some lyrics as final message. I recently Continue reading "Decommissioning old servers"
A couple of days ago I received my Fairphone 4, but unfortunately for the moment, there aren t any alternative operating systems available that provides you root access. Fortunately, the community already found a method to root the phone and to install Magisk. However, the instructions were not always that clear and I have written my Continue reading "Fairphone 4 Root -December 2021"
Here is the situation. I m running an internal IIS server with a simple website and an FTP website on Windows Server 2008 R2. Of course, Windows Server 2008 is End of Service so we need to migrate the server to a new supported server. Unfortunately, the FTP server contains allot of folders and files with Continue reading "Migrate an IIS Website to a New Server"
So yeah, just unlocked this nice little badge from Microsoft. It s a nice added extra for my daily work, but it doesn t really feel like this is the end. I m still doubting if I would go for Azure Developer Associate next or directly to DevOps Engineer Expert We ll see. In the meantime:
Here is the situation, I have Raspberry Pi Desktop running in a VM and Visual Studio Code on my machine. When I try connect to my Raspberry Pi Desktop using VS Code Remote Development, I receive the error node: not found. When checking the files on the side of the Raspberry Pi Desktop, the node Continue reading "Connecting Visual Studio Code to a VM running Raspberry Pi Desktop (Raspbian)"
Been working from home has some advantages like having a radio playing in the background. Unfortunately, I no longer have a classic FM radio, so in the beginning I used my phone or tablet to listen to the online radio, but I didn’t really find it practical. So, during one of the lockdown weekends I Continue reading "RPiRadio"